Br. Jude Michael

Patrick McNally was born on March 15, 1853, in Dublin, Ireland, the son of Bartholomew and Bridget Kren McNally. Patrick's parents died when he was very young and yet a minor, he emigrated to the United States to the city of St. Louis. There he entered Christian Brothers College where he met Brother Barbas whose influence inspired Patrick to enter the Brothers Novitiate at Carondelet in 1876 at the age of twenty-three. He received the habit of the Brothers and the religious name of Brother Jude Michael. Upon leaving the Novitiate he was assigned to New Mexico where he was to spend forty years. In 1879 a special department for Indians and young braves was established at St. Michael's in Santa Fe, and Brother Jude and Brother Filiberto conducted it for two years. He was also assigned at Santa Fe (1885-1886, 1890-1901, 1896-1900, 1904-1906, 1913-1916), Mora (1883-1884), Bernallilo (1884-1885, 1887-1890, 1891-1896, 1900-1904, 1906-1911) and Las Vegas (1911-1913), where he taught the lower grades and was in charge of a class of Indian children. In 1916 he was assigned to Christian Brothers College in St. Joseph, Missouri where he worked in the school office. He retired at age sixty-five in 1917 to the Community of Ancients at Glencoe, Missouri. He was a man of great piety and prayer who died at age eighty-two, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for fifty-nine years.